Pintoricchio

It is difficult to arrange Pintoricchio's pictures into distinct groups. He wandered backwards and forwards between Rome and Umbria for so many years, and his art, during the wh...

Dr. Steinmann suggests, with great probability, that we may fix March as the month of Pintoricchio's return to Siena in 1506, for in that month he took into his employ the Perug...

There is perhaps hardly a place in Rome where you feel so transported into the heart of that old life of the Renaissance, as you do in the Borgia Apartments. After mid-day it is...

A fact that another has once discovered and substantiated seems so obvious to those who come after, that they can hardly understand how it could so long have remained unrecognis...

Pintoricchio is not one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance, and perhaps no painter who has left us such a mass of work, and work of such interest, has attrac...

Umbria is a land of late development in the history of Italian painting, and of a sharp division in the character of its art. No town of the importance of Siena, second only to...

As he passed through the doorway which leads into the Hall of the Arts and Sciences, Pintoricchio found above his head a narrow space to decorate, and his thoughts must have flo...

Few painters of the fifteenth century had received so great a share of Roman patronage as Pintoricchio, and the favour now shown him, which changed the whole of his life, came f...

Giuliano della Rovere, though his uncle was dead, was still a powerful cardinal when Innocent VIII. succeeded in 1484. He inhabited the Colonna Palace, where Vasari tells us tha...

In the beginning of 1501 Pintoricchio left Perugia and went off to Spello, the little town eighteen miles to the south of it. Here the prior of the chapel of the college, Troilo...

BIAGIO. | BENEDETTO. | BERNARDINO, Painter, called Il Pintoricchio, _b. circa_ 1454; _d._ 1513; _m._ Grania, daughter of Niccolò of Modena or Bologna | +-----------+---------+--...